Condenser for distilling plants.



W. A. DUFFY.

CONDENSER FOR DISTILLING PLANTS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. I, I911.

Patented July 16, 1918.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 16, 1918.

Application filed August 1, 1917. Serial No. 183.893.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, WILLIAM A. DUFFY, a

' citizen of the United States, and a resident circulated, so that aflask can be easily removed or replaced, as the case may be, withouti'naterially affecting the distilling plant.

Another object of the invention is to provide a condenser having aseries of flasks connected in parallel.

lVith the above'and other objects in view, the nature of which will morefully appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in thenovel construction, combination and arrangement of parts as herein fullydescribed, illustrated and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of the application, similarcharacters of reference indicate corresponding parts 111 all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a con denser for a distilling plant, aportion of the condenser being broken away to show the details ofconstruction; and

Fig. 2 is a cross section online 2'2, Fig. 1. p Referring to thedrawings, 30 is a conduit leading from a boiler to a condenser orcondensers 31. The condenser is preferably in the shape of a cylinderhaving flattened sides. It accommodates a plurality of flasks 32disposed side by side transversely of the inlet conduit 30, having ashape similar to that of the housing of the condenser but smaller. Oneside of the housing has a removable trap 33 large enough to allow theremoval of a flask. Each of the flasks has at the top and bottom atubular portion terminating in a union 34: whereby it may be connectedto a valve-controlled tubular extension 35. All of the tubularextensions are connected to a head 36 above and below the housing of thecondenser, the lower half serving as an inlet for salt water which is tobe circulated through the flasks and pass through the outlet head 36above the condenser. All of the valve-controlled tubular extensions passthrough a block 37 secured to the condenser housing and in which packingglands 38 are accommodated for each of the extensions so as to preventleakage tlierethrough.

The condenser housing has a baffle plate 39 in front of the vapor-inletconduit 30 dis-- posed to deflect the incoming vapors toward the bottomof the condenser housing where the condensation liquid accumulates. Thedischarge conduit 40 for the condensed distilled vapors has adownwardly-directed elbow 41 which forms a siphoning outlet from thecondenser. The flasks, being shallow with a large surface, arereinforced by stays 42 so as to prevent the spreading or collapsing ofsaid flasks during the circulation of the vapors about them and the saltwater through them.

By providing enough valve-controlled eX- tensions for each of theflasks, any of the flasks may be cut out or cut in at any time withoutmaterially affecting the process of distillation. The provision ofindividual flasks permits the removal and substitution of a flask atsmall expense and with little waste of time in the operation of thedistilling plant.

It will be noted that the flasks of the condenser are connected inparallel, that there is no means interconnecting the flasks within thecondenser, and, therefore, that any one of the flasks may be removedwithout in any way interfering with the other flasks.

I claim:

In a plant for distilling salt water, a condenser having a housing, saidhousing hav ing a vapor inlet at one end thereof and a siphoningcondensed-vapor outlet at the other end near the bottom of the housing,a bailie within the housing extending from the top in front of the vaporinlet for deflectin g the coming-in vapor toward the bottom of thehousing, a series of flasks adapted to be disposed side by side withinthe housing beof the extensions of the top and to ope at the tween theinlet and outlet, said housing haybottom, and means associated Wlthsztid 111g a trap 1n one of the sides thereof through valve-controlledtubular extenslons for C11- U which z flask, may be entered, 017-removed, oulgtting. in cooling medium through said w-eontlwll di ub arext nsions tab; he la ks top and bottom of the housing, means fordetachably connecting eaohof the flasks to. one WILLIAM ALQYSIUS DUFFY.

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